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Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Missions for Mark - Ultimate Fighting Champion

The next big champ?

Hear ye, hear ye the New Year is here. That arbitrary date
decided long before our time that marks the end of over-indulgence and the
beginning of a period of self-torturing abstinence. Whether it’s from your 12
chocolate bar a day diet, smoking, drinking, or from annoyingly rattling on
about what you’re going to do when
the New Year arrives – we’re all trying to escape from our own bedevilling
habits.

Just like us regular mortals, the infamous social media
overlord Mark Zuckerberg also tries to challenge himself each year, with a variety
of positive activities that perhaps only a tech mogul could get away with.

In 2010, for instance, Zuckers decided to learn Mandarin. So
each day he had a Mandarin-speaking colleague come to his office for conversation
practice. Great if you have an endless supply of Chinese speaking employees
whose mother tongue you can utilise at your leisure during work hours, terrible
for those who don’t and would have to fork out £30 per hour to mumble gibberish
in a coffee shop after work.

But it’s a great concept – think of the grand things you
could achieve if you whacked a year into practicing it. In the past Zuckerberg
has also pledged to only eat animals he has killed by his own hands (did he
hear about the horse meat scandal, perchance?), wear a tie to the office, and
meet someone new every day. This year his personal challenge is up for grabs;
he’s declared to the world that he’s open to suggestions from the masses (although
he should realise we’re already 6 days in so he’d better speed up the
decision).

Here at AccuraCast we’ve decided to have a little
brainstorming session for him and come up with some creative ways Mark could
really test himself in 2015:

·Wear an eye patch

Tickle a stranger

·Write a poem and publish them in a book at the
end of the year, giving the proceeds to charity

·Create a new social media platform that outdoes
Facebook

·Change his clothes more frequently

·Become a bodybuilder

·See what people have been searching for and on
Christmas day deliver presents to his Facebook followers